Ish Lipman
Born 1995, San Francisco, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
His work is an attempt to find moments of stillness amidst constant change. Switching from an internal world of thought and imagination to an external world of physical occurrences. These constant transformations blur together, until both internal and external perceptions lose any semblance of solid truth. In this state, the most banal settings become distorted, uncanny and imbued with longing. Yet below the initial discomfort is the hint of a silence that cannot be disturbed or rationally comprehended. The paintings that emerge from these investigations have a similar existence to those moments between sleeping and waking, where the world is colored with the aftertaste of a vivid dream. Painting allows me to linger in these moments of longing, moments that provide a glimpse of freedom, the possibility of an existence that is not defined by sharp lines but instead by constant and gentle change.
He received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2018, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2019, and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2022. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Harper’s (East Hampton, NY), Long Story Short (Paris, France), Harper’s (New York, NY), Praz-Delavallade (Los Angeles, CA), and Sulk (Chicago, IL). Group exhibitions include Marha’s (Austin, TX), Make Room LA (Los Angeles, CA), The Green Gallery (Milwaukee, WI), The Research House for Asian Art (Chicago, IL), and Cypress College (Cypress, CA). Lipman has exhibited at art fairs in Miami and New York City.
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